Eclipse Marketing Call Minutes
June 9, 2009 at 12:00 pm EST
Next Call: July 14, 2009 at 12:00 pm EST
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Attended: David
Bellefeuille (Protecode), Lynn Gayowski (Eclipse), Tina Kvavle
(Instantiations), Christine Medeiros (Collabnet), Mike Perrow (IBM Rational), Vijay
Ramakrishnan (Actuate), Ian Skerrett (Eclipse), Donald Smith (Eclipse), Mary
Wuertz (Innovations Software)
FOUNDATION UPDATES (see below
for information that was given on each event):
1. Galileo activities
2. Community Survey results
3. Membership
Meeting Teleconference
4. Member
Distro Program
1. Galileo activities
http://www.eclipse.org/galileo
-Galileo involves 33 projects and takes place June 24 this
year
-A press release will go out June 24 on new features in the
release, focusing on the adoption of runtime (Equinox/OSGi), the growth in the
modeling projects and the expansion of enterprise adoption (Mac Cocoa support,
PHP IDE, BIRT)
-Eclipse is holding a virtual conference called Galileo In
Action on June 26 where project leads will show demos of their new features
-A “blogathon” is being held to get people
talking about the release – bloggers get a shirt or Friends of Eclipse
membership for participating
-Galileo has an account on Twitter and a “birdsnest”
has been created for followers: http://galileo.chinposin.com/
-Links to download Galileo and information on the Galileo
projects, Galileo In Action, the blogathon and the Twitter birdsnest are
available from http://www.eclipse.org/galileo/
-DemoCamps are being held around the world until the end of
June: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_DemoCamps_Galileo_2009
2. Community Survey results
http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20090527_survey09.php
-A survey of the Eclipse community was conducted April
15-May 15
-Had 1,400 respondents
-A summary of the results will be presented on the members
teleconference (see next item for details)
-An analysis of the results is available at http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/Eclipse_Survey_2009_final.pdf
and the results are at http://eclipse.org/go/Survey_09
3. Membership Meeting Teleconference
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/join/501146339
June 23, 2009
8:30 am PDT / 11:30 am EST / 3:30 GMT
-The summer quarterly membership meeting is coming up and
will be held online through GoToMeeting
-Call will include an update and the latest stats. from the
Executive Director, results from Eclipse’s recent Community Survey,
project updates and new member introductions
-If you would like to give a project update or are a new
member that would like to introduce their company, please email Donald Smith at
donald at eclipse dot org
-To join the conference call, register at https://www2.gotomeeting.com/join/501146339
4. Member Distro Program
http://www.eclipse.org/membership/special_programs/member-downloads-program.php
-The member distro downloads program is a very significant
benefit to membership
-Eclipse downloads page gets about 1,000 downloads per month
-Participating in the distro program redirects some of this
traffic to your site
-Since the Eclipse downloads is popular and a well-respected
site, members have also found that participating improved their Google search
results
-For the Galileo release, Eclipse is increasing the
visibility of members who participate
-It’s free to join the program but you will have to
supply bandwidth and the time it takes to set up
-Full details are at http://www.eclipse.org/membership/special_programs/member-downloads-program.php
-If you are interested, email Donald Smith at donald at
eclipse dot org
Regards,
Lynn Gayowski
Marketing Events Manager
Eclipse Foundation, Inc.